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Formulate, qualified lab scale, qualified pilot scale, and scaled to full plant production products for top national and international turf companies. Write recipe files for automated homogeneous fertilizer plant.Personally oversee the scale up of every product produced by United Fertilizer Technologies from beaker to full production.Scaled up 11 ton per hour Gypsum manufacturing facility. Boosted Gypsum production by 25% with grinding study / minor modification to plant equipment.Laid out plant modifications that moved a synthetic fertilizer plant from producing 100% off spec product for 6 months to producing 100% on spec product for 6 months.Reduce full plant scale up time of new products from 2 to 6 months to 4 to 6 hours.Reduced N-P-K-micros analytical time from 24 hours to 2 - 8 hours.Designed, sourced analytical equipment, supervised startup and trained employees at LESCO’s Sebring Florida lab.Served on the Corporate Quality team that took a major US fertilizer company from Florida's worst quality rating to in compliance with Florida law.Created programs to calculate Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Boron, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Zinc, and Molybdenum content and to adjust for the dry matter of each individual input material and final product in homogeneous synthetic, organic, and hybrid fertilizer reaction / granulation products.Formulate, generate pricing and specification sheets for customers for all products produced at United Fertilizer Technologies Disputanta Virginia plant and GRANCO Minerals Disputanta VA plant.Attend trade shows to grow customer baseModified Nitrogen partitioning on products to comply with ever changing state fertilizer regulations.Produce labels that comply with each states fertilizer law.Serve as environmental coordinator for the Wilson Group Companies – DEQ annual updates, SARA Title III Ties II reports, storm-water sampling reports, et. al.

Formulation, lab-scale qualification, Pilot Plant qualification, and full plant scale-up of all products produced at United Fertilizer Technologies and GRANCO Minerals. Polymer crystallization and polymer rework strategies for ANCOS and other third party companies.Responsible for the overall leadership and direction of a privately held polymer, fertilizer and animal feed research and development center. Quality control for a homogeneous fertilizer manufacturing facility and an animal feed manufacturing facility.Quality control duties include testing degree of polymer crystallization, Karl Fisher moisture determination, feed Protein and micro mineral content, and fertilizer Total, Nitrogen, Nitrogen partitioning, Phosphate, Potassium, micronutrients, crush strength, pH, and dry matter.Assure that analytical methodologies are compliant with federal and state regulatory agencies.Assure that product labels comply with state requirements.Operate, calibrate, and maintain laboratory equipment. Maintain R&D and laboratory supply budgets.

Managed quality for a privately held company that manufactured high quality synthetic fertilizers for LESCO, Inc - a John Deere Company.Responsible for quality program. Sampled and analyzed products for chemical content and assured compliance with domestic and international fertilizer law. Trained employees and implemented Statistical Process Controls. Operated and maintained the laboratory and laboratory equipment. KPAC Holdings purchased the NOVEX plant from LESCO – quality duties were the same as under LESCO.

Scaled up all products produced at LESCO’s homogeneous synthetic fertilizer plant in Disputanta, VA.Responsible for development and implementation of quality program. Assured compliance with domestic and international fertilizer law. Trained employees and implemented Statistical Process Controls. Designed and purchased lab analyzers, furnishings and supplies for LESCO’s Disputanta lab. Supervised 1 to 4 chemists. Performed repairs on analytical equipment. Designed and trained lab technicians at LESCO’s Sebring Florida lab. Served on LESCO’s Corporate Quality team. Reduced LESCO’s off-spec inventory by 1.5 million dollars by developing a plan to convert an off spec recycle stream to on spec product. One of 2 people to receive Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Maintenance Certification and Perkin Elmer WinLab Certification in 2004.